Relationships between outcomes of conservative treatment and magnetic resonance imaging findings in patients with mild cervical myelopathy caused by soft disc herniations

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Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 1592-1598

  Matsumoto, Morio ^a   Chiba, Kazuhiro ^a   Ishikawa, Masayuki ^a   Maruiwa, Hirofumi ^a   Fujimura, Yoshikazu ^a   Toyama, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical disc herniation; Conservative treatment; Myelopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRACES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035879272     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200107150-00021     Document Type: Article

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